Oil company has paid more than $60bn in fines over environmental disaster that still threatens wildlife and ecology around Gulf of Mexico

BP is to take a further $2.5bn (£1.87bn) hit as a result of the Deepwater Horizon accident, bringing the total cost of the environmental disaster to almost $62bn.

The latest after-tax non-operating charge will be taken in the company’s second quarter financial results to be formally announced on 26 July.

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Source: Guardian Environment